Weighting

Weighting

A technique used to adjust data to reflect the known population profile. It is used to balance out any significant variance between actual and target profile. Weighted analyses of population-based surveys allow us to generalize findings to a larger or more general population. This approach aims to provide unbiased estimates of descriptive statistics or model parameters of the population of interest, which may be a general population or major population subgroup. Incorporating weights in the analyses can be crucial to achieve statistically valid, representative population-based findings in surveys and to make adjustments for sampling errors (153).Y